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Patented Aug. 18, 1931.

UNITED fsrA' -res PATENT OFFICE CHARLES E. GALE, or nos on, MASs onusE sAssrGNoR To PNEUMATIC SCALE CORPORATION, LIMITED, or QUINCY,MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION or MAS- SAGHUSETTS Application filed April11,

This invention relates to a book-and more particularly to a check book.

In general one object of the invention is to provide a novel book ofsuch construction as to permit predetermined portions of successivepages of the book in bound form to be printed upon in amachine in anaccurate, rapid and economical manner.

A further and more specificobject of the inventionis to provide a novelcheck bookof the type supplied by the banks to their depositors, theconstruction of which, in its bound form, is such as to permit thedepositors name and a serial number to be printed by machine upon theindividual checks comprising the body of the book in an accurate, rapidand economical .manner.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the book, andparticularly in the check book, hereinafter described and particularly'defined in the claims at the end of this specification. v

In the drawings the different features of the invention are illustratedas embodied in a check book, wherein Fig.1 is a perspective view of aportion of the check book with the covers folded back to expose to view,passages for use in printing the depositors name and the serial numberofthe individual checks; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional viewillustrating the position occupied by thecheck book dur ing the printingoperation; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the check book in an opened positionshowing one of the pages of checks; and Fig. 4 is a detail sectionalviewof one of thebinding strips clearly illustrating a passage forapositioning member.

In general, in its broader aspects the present invention contemplates anovel construction of book which is'designed to facilitate a printingoperation to be performed by machine upon predetermined portions ofdifferent pages of the bound book in'an accurate, rapid and practicalmanner, and to this end the improved book is provided with openingstherein in or near the binding thereof, and preferably with two passagesformed in the binding of the'book, capable of receiving correspondingpositioning members forming part of the printing apparatus. By the-co19.29.- Serial No. 354,296.

operation of such positioning members with said positioning means, anaccurate alignment andpositioning of the successive uppermost-pages-ofthe book to be printed upon with relation to the printing element may beinsured, so that during the printing opera tion, after the uppermostpage of the body of the book has been printed upon, the page may then beturned to expose the succeeding page, and this page by the'cooperationof said positioning means and members will be maintained in anaccuratelyalignecl position with relation to the printing elementthereby enabling predetermined portions of the page to be printedaccuratelyand in a rapid and practical manner.

Inits more specific aspect the invention contemplates anovel and usefulconstruction of check book in bound form which has spaces upon thechecks for the printing of the-depositors name together with the serialnumbersof the checks, and which in addition is provided in'or near the'bindingwith one or moreopenings for the reception of positioningmembers "to, enable the printing of the depositorsfname upon the face ofthe checks and also the serial numbers of the checks to V be performedin a rapid, accurate, and convenient manner.

Referring 'now to the drawings, which illustrates theinvention asembodied in a check book, 10 represents the body portion of the checkbook which is made up-of a large number of pages of checks 12 and stubs13 to which each check is detachably secured, similarto theordinary'large check book at present furnished bythe banks. The checksand stubs are preferably lithographed upon the oppositesides ofa doublepage of the book, and a series of such doublepages areassembled infoldedposition to form a number of bundle-s 14, *the pages of which aresewed together as ,by stitching 15 and are preferably secured to'eachothercby being sewed to fabric strips '16'by'stitching '17. Intheconstructionof the book, a number of the bundles 14 are arranged asillustrated in Fig. 1 to be bound to cover members 20, 21 which areconnected by a back member 22. As herein shown, the ends 23, 24 of thefabric strips 16 are adhesively affixed to the inside of the covermembers 20, 21. One outer edge portion of each of the elongated fabricstrips 28 and 29 is also adhesively aflixed to the inside of the covers20, 21, and sewn to the upper and lower of the bundles 14, and thesecond edge portion of each of said fabric strips is extended betweentwo of the bundles 14, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and adhesively affixedto the portions of the pages thereof with which it contacts. I

In order to facilitate the printing operation upon predeterminedportions of the book in its bound form, the latter is provided withpositioning means herein shown as positioning slots 30 formed in or nearthe binding of the book in a position in which positioning bars ormembers 32, each secured to a fixed bracket 34 forming part of theprinting machine, may be received while permitting successive uppermostpages of the book to be printed upon and turned to expose the succeedingpage. The cooperation of the positioning members or bars 32 with thewalls of the positioning slots 30 serves to maintain the body portion ofthe book in predetermined position with relation to the reciprocatoryprinting element lO so that the succeed ing pages of the book may beprinted in an accurate, rapid and practical manner. The registering orpositioning slots 30 are in the illustrated book formed by openings inthe strips 28 and 29 and these openings form the end-s of open passagesextending from the top to the bottom of the book when the covers arefolded back. The walls of the passages are formed by the fiber strips 16and the backs of the bundles 14. constituting the body of the book, thestitching 17 reinforcing the strips outside the passages. When theprinting operation is to be performed the cover members are folded backin the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 and the positioning bars ormembers 32 are extended upwardly through the slots 30 that is, throughthe openings formed between the fabric strips 16 and the back of thebundles, the stitches 17 being loose enough to permit this, so that theparts assume the position shown in Fig. 2. Thereafter after theuppermost page is printed the succeeding pages of the body of the bookmay be printed and the printing will be effected upon predeterminedportions of each page of the book.

As illustrated in Fig. 3, each check is provided with a space as at 44'upon which the depositors name may be printed, and each check is alsoprovided with a space upon which the serial number of the check may beprinted. In practice the check book with the positioning slots 30 formedas above described will be bound with each check in a completed formexcept as to the provision of the depositors name and the serial numberof the check. Such a construction of check book is extremely useful to abank for the reason that it may be conveniently stored and a supplymaintained on hand by the bank ready to be printed up with thedepositors name and with the serial numbers of the checks within a shorttime after receipt by the bank ofa request for a check book from anyparticular depositor. At the present time it is necessary for the bank,after having received a request for such a check book, to order theindividual checks printed and the particular check book bound with thechecks thus printed so that the depositor is oftentimes obliged to waitfor a considerable pe riod of time, even as much as a week, before he issupplied with a check book in which the checks bear his name upon theirface and bear the correct serial numbers.

WVhile in its preferred form the different features are embodied in acheck book, nevertheless it will be understood that the invention may beembodied in other books within the scope of the following claims.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A book in bound form comprising a body portion, a cover portionhaving cover boards, and means for securing the body portion to thecover portion, said means comprising a pair of strips attachedtransversely to one edge of the body portion and having their endssecured to the cover portion, the strips, for a portion of their widths,being unattached to the edge of the body portion to provide transversepassages between the strips and the body portion, the ends of saidpassages being unobstructed when the boards of the cover portion arefolded back to permit positioning members to be inserted in saidpassages.

2. A book in bound form comprising a body portion including a pluralityof bundles of pages, a cover portion having cover boards, and the meansfor interconnecting the various bundles and for securing the connectedbundles to the cover portion, said means comprising a pair of stripsattached transversely to one edge of the body portion and having 7 theirends secured to the cover portion, the strips, for a portion of theirwidths, being unattached to the edge of the body portion to providetransverse passages between the strips and the body portion, at leastone end of each of said passages being unobstructed when the boards ofthe cover portion are folded back to permit positioning members to beinserted in said passages.

3. A book in bound form comprising a bodyzportion including a pluralityof bundles of pages, a cover portion having cover boards, means forinterconnecting the various bundles, and means for securing theconnected bundles to the cover portion, the firstmentioned meanscomprising a pair of strips attached transversely to the bundles andhaving their ends secured to the cover portion, the strips, for aportion of their widths, being unattached to the bundles to providetransverse passages between the strips and the bundles, the ends of saidpassages being unobstructed when the boards of the cover portion arefolded back to permit positioning members to be inserted in saidpassages.

4. A book in bound form comprising a body portion made up of a pluralityof leaves, said body portion being provided with means forming atransversely extended passage for the reception of a positioning member,said passage being unobstructed whereby the positioning member maysnugly fit the passage and engage the walls thereof to maintain theindividual leaves making up the body portion in predetermined relation,cover members, and means for securing the body portion to said covermembers independently of said passage and in a. manner such as to permitat least one end of the passage to be uncovered only when the covermembers are folded back to expose the body portion.

5. A book in bound form comprising a body portion made up of a pluralityof leaves, said body portion being provided with means formingtransversely extended passages for reception of positioning members,said passages being unobstructed whereby the positioning members maysnugly fit the passages and engage the walls thereof to maintain theindividual leaves making up the body portion in predetermined relation,cover members, and means for securing the body portion to said covermembers independently of said passages and in a manner such as to permitat least one end of the passages to be uncovered only when the covermembers are folded back to expose the bod portion.

6. A book in bound orm comprising a body portion including a pluralityof bundles of pages, cover members and means for securing the bodyportion to the cover members, in a manner such as to permit .the covermembers to be folded back to expose the faces of the body portion, saidmeans being unattached at certain places and forming with the foldedends of the bundles making up the body portion, transverse passagesunobstructed and into which positioning members may be inserted tosubstantially fill the passages and engage the walls thereof to maintainthe individual pages comprising the body portion in predeterminedrelation for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CHARLES E. GALE.

